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Unbeknownst to the rest of the working world, magical things are happening every day in university labs across the country. The people in those labs take their work for granted until there is a major breakthrough, then they call the New York Times and investment banks. NBN tries to give you a peek at the day-to-day goings on inside those labs before the calls go out.
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The Matrix: Fallacy or The Future
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What
can NBN conclude from this study? The Hollywood smash hit movie
series “The Matrix” might well be human destiny! Rand’s
study about social networking tendencies seems to overlook the fact
that the social interaction that makes this mass cooperation possible
is really only available through the internet. Physical realities
make it impossible to interact in one week with the number of people
you can reach out and “touch” in one hour on the internet. That’s
why NBN predicts virtual reality will inevitably replace what today
is considered real reality. Who are we kidding? Look at this video above.
Virtual reality is already replacing the real thing.
Now let’s draw
another conclusion based on our grossly subjective reading of this
article: Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Contrary to what Keanu
Reeves would have you believe, it ain’t all bad. Let’s face it
folks a steak by any other experience is still a steak. We can attach
all the romance we want to the physicality of life, but when you
break it all down, that steak, and a host of other sensual
experiences we can’t detail and keep NBN’s G-rating, are all
electrical impulses shooting through a three-quarter-inch conduit
called our spinal cord.
But,
that’s beside the point. What this study points up, and what holds
out a lot of promise, and disappointment, is individual participation
in these “virtual” social networks is inevitable according to the
demands of that most primitive of life forces, evolution. Yes that
old doggerel “survival of the fittest” is going to force folks to
flock to the internet in the next decade or two and spend more and
more time there. The movie The Matrix implies all sorts of evil in
getting swallowed up by this technology, and indeed, there are some
very ugly scenarios that could arise in this evolution. But
ultimately everything we perceive, real or virtual, is all just
information and information was, is and always will be a prime driver
of evolution.
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